Mozart's manuscript |
They are conducted by Stephen Layton and have assembled a strong cast. The soloists are Elizabeth Watts, Clare Wilkinson, Jeremy Ovenden and Roderick Williams, a very fine group. But almost even more tempting is the fact that the Requiem is being paired with a performance of John Adams's profoundly elegiac The Wound Dresser, with Roderick Williams as the baritone soloist. This setting of Walt Whitman's poem was, amazingly, written in 1989.
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